KIOWA-ENGLISH GLOSSARY 



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K'iTiiihi iite — "Man;" a Kiowa warrior 

 killed liy Mexicaus in 1836-37. 



K'i'riahi-i>i';iko — Toukawa ; literally, 

 "man-eaters,"' from Ici'iliihi, piii or 

 piiinijua, anil I'o ; sometimes called 

 Gd'tJaU'o'ho, "buffalo spies,'" from 

 ija'diil, (ilo'ii, and lio. The Tonkawa, 

 originally from the lower Colorado, in 

 Texas, noted and hated amoni;' otber 

 tribes for their cannibal practices, 

 lived for a time at Anadarko, in the 

 vicinity of the present Catholic mis- 

 sion and on Tonkawa creek, where 

 they were surprised and nearly half 

 their number massacred by a combi- 

 nation of neighboring tribes, October 

 25, 18fi2. Sign: "Cannibal," made by 

 combining the signs for man and 

 ratiny. 



KiTiasii'hek'ia — see Zonk' in. 



KiTiep — "Bi^- shields," from AJii, plural 

 of Ici/iini, and c^j a plural personal form 

 of c^ or cdtil : one of the six recognized 

 divisions of the Kiowa tribe, the 

 "shield'" band of Clark (see page 228). 



Ki'nzi — sec iLVnijomhc'iHe. 



k'iou — love-making, courting; also 

 Ica'-ltdn; the first form seems to con- 

 tain the root k'i, man. 



K'i'on ton — "Love-making spring," also 

 sometimes called A'a'-tdtil toil; a spring 

 in a bend on the south side of the 

 North fork of Red river, near Mouut 

 Walsh, in Greer county, Oklahoma; 

 so called because in the old times 

 when the Kiowa and Cheyenne used 

 to camp ou the opposite side of the 

 stream, the women, as they crossed 

 over to the spring for water, were 

 followed by the young men bent on 

 courting. 



Kiowa — for Gd'igwii (see Kiowa syn- 

 onymy). 



Eisi'ixiliis (Kichai) — see Tagu'i. 



Ki'tikitl'sh (Wichita) — see Do'i/u'at. 



Ki'tski'ikatu'k (Wichita) — the Wichita 

 village, formerly on the north bank of 

 the North fork of Red river, about 

 half way between Elm fork and Elm 

 creek, ou the reservation. The Wich- 

 ita say the Kichai occupied it jointly 

 with themselves. The name is ren- 

 dered by a chief of the Wichita " vil- 

 l.-iges on the side of a mountain," in 

 his testimony in the (!reer county 



dispute, where it is spelled KkIis-Iio- 

 i'o-(HcA' (misprint h for/.'; see Sunmier 

 1834). 



-ko, -go, -gua, -gwfi — a tribal sufKx. 



K'ob'-il' p"a — " Mouutaiu-timber creek;" 

 San Francisco creek, a small tributary 

 of the North Canadian, between Palo 

 Dure and Beaver creeks, Oklahoma, so 

 called because the principal timber 

 upon it is of varieties usually growing 

 only in tlie mountains. 



K'o'b-aka'n — "last mountain," from h^op 

 antl aka'n; Mount Walsh, in Greer 

 county, Oklahcuua. Cf. Tso''kaka'ii. 



Iv o'b-e'ta' — " great mountains, " from k' op 

 and edal. (1) Mount Scott, northwest 

 of Fort Sill, on the reservation. (2) 

 The Sierra Madre of southern New 

 Mexico and of Chihuahua and Sonora 

 in Mexico. War parties of the Kiowa 

 and allied tribes formerly made these 

 mountains their headquarters for raid- 

 ing upon the adjoining portions of 

 Mexico. 



K'ob-et'ain'iuo — "white nioun tain,"' 

 from k'op and tuiil {-mo makes it singu- 

 lar) ; a nu)untaia westward from the 

 head of Pecos river. New Mexico. 



K'o'b-o'tiibo — Mount Sheridan, nortli- 

 west of Fort Sill, on the reservation. 

 The name, suggested by the form of the 

 mountain, denotes a mountain resem- 

 bling a nose sticking out horizontally, 

 from k'opi and o'tiibo. 



k'odal — neck; the throat or tracheal 

 portion is o'si, in composition o. 



K'o'dal-aka'-i — (abbreviated, K'o'hi- 

 ka'-i): "Wrinkled-neck,"' a clerk of 

 William Bent, who established trading 

 posts on the South Canadian, in the 

 panhandle of Texas, in 1844-1841). 



K'o'dal-gu'adal — "Red-neck ; " Agent 

 Captain J. Lee Hall, 188.^-1887. 



k'o'dali'iitou (or k'oli'iitou) — a variety 

 of musselshell used for gorgets or 

 neck pendants, especially by the 

 Osage; from k'o'dal. The Kiowa have 

 no generic name for shell. A tlint 

 arrowhead worn as a neck jtendjuit by 

 Kiowa, medicine-men is calli^d Ilo'-ac'ae, 

 "Bo arrow," from Bo, a mythic dw.irf, 

 very strong. 



K'o dali'liton p"a — (abbreviated, K'oli'- 

 filoH l>'a); (North) Platte river; 

 literally, "necklace-shell river,'" or 



